The latter is important, especially if you don't feel confident in taking your N900 apart to reinforce the port.

The latter is important, especially if you don't feel confident in taking your N900 apart to reinforce the port.

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If you need more battery life, there is a 2400mAh extended battery and bulged battery cover made by Mugen. If you understand the risks, and have soldering skills you can make a [http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=65568 double battery system] currently 3000mAh extended batteries are possible.

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If you are very confident with a soldering iron or perhaps have destroyed your USB port and have no way to charge you can install the [http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=56950 Palm Pre Touchstone wireless inductive charging system].

Introduction

Since the N900 has been release many developments have been made by the community. This page is to provide a generic guide to getting started with good foundations.
This page will mainly link all the useful bits of the wiki and other useful information together.

Hardware

Hardware Accessories

Hardware Specifications

Recommended Hardware Modifications

One of the most common issues with the N900 is the surface mounted USB port.
If you are not careful with it, the port can be ripped from the PCB.
Due to the design of the port if this occurs, it can be vary difficult to repair successfully.

Therefore it is highly recommend to reinforce your USB port by soldering the casing of the USB to the PCB. Information on this is covered in great extent on talk.maemo.org

Another common modification is to remove the locking pins on all your microUSB cable connectors. This can be done by filing them down carefully with a small file.

The latter is important, especially if you don't feel confident in taking your N900 apart to reinforce the port.

Advanced Skill Mods:

If you need more battery life, there is a 2400mAh extended battery and bulged battery cover made by Mugen. If you understand the risks, and have soldering skills you can make a double battery system currently 3000mAh extended batteries are possible.

Highly Recommended Further Setup

Importance of CSSU

If you have flashed your firmware as above, your [N900] will now be on the last major Nokia release (PR1.3). From here onwards the Maemo Community are providing vital security updates, fixing bugs and generally moving the device forward. This is known as CSSU or Community SSU.

It is recommended all users install CSSU, of which there are two versions.

Recommended Further Setup

Kernel Power

Kernel Power is a community developed Kernel that provides addition features and fixes to the Kernel. Kernel Power also provides the ability to overclock the device with an additional package kernel-power-settings

While overclocking is not recommended and has been known to reduce the lifetime of the device, the [Kernel Power] package on it's own is recommended and will not alter your device from the standard 250Mhz-600Mhz clock speed.

It provided important features like stable Smartreflex which will significantly increase battery life.

More information on this is here
Please note Kernel Power page is heavily biased on overclocking and is provided for further reference only.

Utilise the SD Card

The N900 has a uSD card slot, it's a good to use this as much as possible to reduce flash wear from the devices eMMC.

Many users setup there swap space(s) on the uSD card this frees up the I/O of the device.

There has been much discussion on this and applications written to help with this.